A group of Nazi officers participated in a different experience during World War II. From inside the prisons. A team of All-Star Nazis and a team of Allied Prisoners of War were able to play football. Prisoners agree to the game but try to use the game as a way to escape the camp as soon as possible.
Huston, showing admirable range in his old age, creates enough on-field magic and nostalgia for the beatiful game as an idyll of now-extinct sportsmanship.
Unsatisfactory both for fans of star-studded prison escape dramas and for football fans hoping to see cunningly devised tactics from Pele and his squad of internationals.